Try This: Drink in the holidays

The Festival of Trees joins vintage planes at Pearson Air Museum where visitors will be able to have pictures taken with Santa and participate in a scavenger hunt among other events today and Sunday. (Handout)

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The Festival of Trees takes place among the vintage planes at Pearson Air Museum, where visitors will be able to have pictures taken with Santa, among other events, today and Sunday. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)

The wine tour is one of many options for getting out and about this weekend.

2. Rum run fun

The Hot Buttered Run is a spirited 12K run and 5K walk/run beginning and ending at the Pearson Air Museum, with the route going through Fort Vancouver, across the Vancouver Land Bridge to the waterfront and downtown Vancouver. There are also the Kids Kandy Kane Race and Kids Kandy Kane 1K fun runs for children. The event ends with an award ceremony. Hot buttered rum and hot chocolate await at the end of the race. The event is part of the Festival of Trees, and will be collecting non-perishable food donations for the Clark County Food Bank.

3. Take the train to your Christmas tree

Chelatchie Prairie Railroad presents its annual Christmas Tree Train, where visitors can enjoy the ride and take home a Christmas tree. The historic railroad ride travels through the forests of north Clark County on a 10-mile round-trip that includes Moulton Falls and a 330-foot rock tunnel.

When: 9:30 a.m., noon and 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Where: Chelatchie Prairie Railroad, 207 N. Railroad Ave., Yacolt.

Admission: $15, $14 for seniors, $10 for youth, $8 for children; $20-$40 for trees; $55-$75 for family value packages with tree.

4. Evergreens and aeroplanes

The Vancouver Rotary Foundation hosts the 17th annual Festival of Trees, with decorated trees filling the Pearson Air Museum with holiday cheer amid the vintage aircraft. Visitors will have the chance to take photos with Santa Claus, try the flight simulators, enjoy musical entertainment or partake in a family scavenger hunt. The festival is also encouraging non-perishable food donations, which will be collected for Share.

5. Otherworldly 'Life of Pi'

Based on the award-winning novel, Pi (Suraj Sharma) grows up in southern India, where his family runs the zoo. He is crushed when life prompts his family to leave his home and move to Canada, selling the animals to start anew. The freight ship carrying Pi's family and the animals is struck by a nocturnal storm and Pi finds himself sharing a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, a rat and a Bengal tiger. "Life of Pi" is rated PG.